My biggest gripe with lunches here is when they use too much sauce / ketchup / sugar poison.Today we had delicious eggs, and they covered it with a big dollop of ketchup. Gross.Or like when they'll give you fish that MIGHT be delicious, but it's covered in fried batter and sticky sugar poison sauce. Or chicken with sauce. Sauce is gross. Ew.If they had more seafood and vegetables and stuff that wasn't either fried meat or glucose trash, I'd feel better.
Quote from: sevenpm on October 19, 2017, 01:20:48 pmlately our most "special" meal has a boiled sweet potato that everyone peeled and ate like a banana. i said no thanks!I... don't get it. Who doesn't like sweet potatoes? They're literally one of the healthiest foods you can eat, and they taste awesome.
lately our most "special" meal has a boiled sweet potato that everyone peeled and ate like a banana. i said no thanks!
I find the sweet potatoes here to be a bit dry,
I also don't peel the sweet potatoes, or any potatoes for that matter. A lot of the nutritional benefits are in the peel, and I like the peel, so I eat the whole thing. I used to get a few looks, but they don't pay me much mind anymore.
Quote from: lifeisgood6447 on October 19, 2017, 02:03:44 pmI also don't peel the sweet potatoes, or any potatoes for that matter. A lot of the nutritional benefits are in the peel, and I like the peel, so I eat the whole thing. I used to get a few looks, but they don't pay me much mind anymore.I know that heavy metal contamination in the tubers is a serious problem in Korea due to many of the tubers being cultivated in contaminated soil near former mines, etc.I always believed that removing the skins would help, but recent studies have indicated that they are not any more or less dangerous, so long as they are "baked" (not sure what boiling does).Anyway, we will all die from something, sooner or later.
I'm sure you are being funny, but when I first arrived in 20+ years ago, you would be hard pressed to find a Korean who would eat the skins on their locally grown grapes due to pesticide usage.No idea about today, though.
My middle school third graders have finals next week. Not midterms, mind you. Finals.I guess the "we're going to be completely unproductive" period will begin early this year. After all, the test is the only thing that really matters, and they know it. Trying to get them to do anything afterwards is like pulling teeth, and now I'm going to have several months of it.The first graders have nothing, because my school started doing a "free semester" for first graders last year, meaning no exams for them at the end of second semester. Could just be me, but I'd think it'd make more sense to make the first semester the free semester, so you could still test them on what they've learned at the end of the year. Oh well. What do I know.The second graders have mid-terms, so that's still normal, I guess.